What Are You Doing This Weekend?
Looking for some interesting things to do this weekend? Check out these local events:
Start your weekend early! Pack a picnic basket and blanket, head on down to the Evergreen Rotary Park’s Amphitheatre in Bremerton TONIGHT (Thursday, 8/21) and enjoy “Shakespeare in the Park: The Tempest.” The show, presented by the Changing Scene Theatre Northwest and directed by Derek Niegemann, begins at 6 p.m. And if you can’t make it tonight, don’t worry. You can catch it next Thursday (8/28) instead! Call 360-473-5425 for more information.
If theatre (or Shakespeare) isn’t your thing, then you might want to head to the Kitsap County Fair & Stampede instead. It runs from August 20th (yesterday) through Sunday, August 24th at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds in Bremerton. Enjoy carnival rides and games, a rodeo, a free concert by Emerson Drive (we already missed the free concert by Three Dog Night), a Wild West show, juggling, hypnosis, a petting farm, racing pigs, tractor pull races, a beard and mustache contest, educated parrots (?!?), and even karaoke! You can get all the details at the Kitsap County Fair & Stampede web page.
History buffs and those who enjoy documentary films won’t want to miss seeing the film “Mystery U-Boat of World War I,” showing at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport on Saturday at 2 p.m. Watch as the Deep Sea Detectives explore the site of the sunken German submarine UB-107 and the surprise discovered there. And did I mention that it’s FREE?
On a side note, you may see hordes of bicyclists on the roads of Puget Sound, because this weekend is the 5th Annual Ride Around Puget Sound, supporting statewide bicycle advocacy and education. It’s a 1 or 2 day ride of 170 miles (which is impressive, because I think it would take me at least a week to get that far!) So keep an eye out for those bicyclists and let’s share the roads with them!
